Paul McCartney wanted The Beatles’ “Can’t Buy Me Love” to start with a certain lyric. The band’s producer, George Martin, didn’t think that line was impactful. The Beatles’ “Can’t Buy Me Love” was a ...

In The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul said he wrote “Can’t Buy Me Love” on a piano in the George V Hotel in Paris. He and The Beatles were staying at the hotel, which was near the Champs-Elysées, ...

These four gorgeous classic rock songs helped invent the classic rock radio format during its formative years.

A cultural and musical history of the 1960s in Britain and America captures the pulse of the era through the music of the Beatles, critically analyzing why the group became a trans-Atlantic phenomenon ...